[Discuss] Script to simplify the process of signing keys after the BLU keysigning party

[John Abreau]

My bash script for signing keys after a BLU keysigning party is on the
BLU website at

    http://blu.org/keysignings/email-signed-keys.txt

Usage:

    ./email-signed-keys.sh [ { --bsmtp | --mailx } ] [ --local-user keyid ]
 keyid keyid keyid ....

If you want to sign with a secret key other than your default secret key,
use the "--local-user" option.

The script prompts you to sign each key listed on the command line,
then produces either a BSMTP (batch smtp) shar archive or a mailx shar
archive to email the signed and encrypted keys to their owners so that
only the person who has each secret key can read the corresponding
email.

Us the "--mailx" switch if you'll be sending the emails from a system
that can send mail with the mailx(1) command. This is the default.

Use the "--bsmtp" switch if you'll be sending the emails from a system
that can send mail with the /usr/sbin/sendmail command.

To avoid having to retype your pass phrase multiple times, it helps
to run gpg-agent to cache the pass phrase.

If you have a gmail account, there's a Linux package "ssmtp" that
takes the place of /usr/sbin/sendmail and can be configured to use
gmail to send mail from your desktop linux machine. See
http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/send-mail-with-gmail-and-ssmtp/ for details.


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